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A blooming shame

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa), 23 June 2008

In what can be described as a blooming shame, Telkom has managed to stop the Competition Commission (CC) from referring Telkom’s anti-competitive dispute with the VANs (SA Value Added Service Providers) to the Competition Tribunal.

In what has come as a blow to justice in South Africa, Presiding judge RG Claasen ruled in the Pretoria High Court that the CC should not be allowed to refer the matter between Telkom and the VANs to the Competition Tribunal. This must be the reason why Claasen didn’t have the guts to read the reasons for his judgement aloud in Court, but rather chosen to hand out the document to the legal council of both the CC and Telkom. Furthermore, Claasen instructed the CC, and in fact tax payers, to pay Telkom’s legal costs.

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